Bremer donation boosts comfort, efficiency at Mount St. Benedict

A donation of $2,600 from Bremer Bank in Crookston to the Mount Saint Benedict will go toward the replacement of windows in the Good Shepherd Hall.

Together with funds raised by Mount Saint Benedict and funding from the Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. work will now begin in replacing many of the windows in the Good Shepherd Hall, allowing for energy conservation, warmth and comfort to the residents of this facility for aging sisters at the Mount.

In an energy audit of the Good Shepherd Hall done in the spring and summer of 2009 it was discovered that significant energy conservation measures were needed to bring the facility up to new and modern standards of energy conservation.

Tri-Valley initiated the energy audit and sought funding from the Minnesota Department of Commerce through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It was later determined by the funding source that the work could not go forward due to technicalities of eligibility.

Still, with the commitment of the Mount Saint Benedict, Great Plains Natural Gas and the work of Tri-Valley, funds were raised from private individuals and groups to afford the attic insulation and air sealing of the Good Shepherd Hall with work completed in the spring of 2011. Nearly $5,000 in cost savings were achieved the first year. Left to be completed was the replacement of sixty-eight windows.

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Bremer donation boosts comfort, efficiency at Mount St. Benedict